The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-21 00:00:00

HiGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning MONTHLY CHRONICE No. 3. Messrs. Longman and Co. request that Advertisements for the forthcoming number of the Monthly Chronicle be sent to them not later than Wednesday, April 25 , and Bills not later than Thursday, April 26. 39, Paternoster-row, April 21, 1838. TO CORRESPONDENTS. . 4 S. 's." communication would expose us, if published, to an action for libel. The publication of Tin SUN NEWSPAPER COM al 10 minutes past Four o' Clock. wl this day WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1838. The advocates of the West India planters deny that there has been any reluctance on the part of the Colonists generally to follow out the intentions of the Mother-country with respect to the treat ment of the apprentices. They pretend to say, on the contrary, that there has been the greatest anxiety shown to give the fullest effect to these intentions, and that it is only in a few individual cases that the provi ions of the Abolition Act have been contrevened, or cruelty exercised towerds the blacks. We hope there are not many men, and still fewer women, even in Jamaica, who could make the husband stand by and witness the agonies of the wife writhing under the torture of the cat ; or who could put the knotted scourge into the hand of the son to tear the living flesh from the father's body. Such atrocities as these can never be gene rally practised until men shall be converted into de mons by wholesale ; but nothing can be clearer than that the violation of the Abolition Act, in Jamaica at all events, is the rule, and its observance the ex- ception. By way of assisting the few persons who are in any doubt as to the good faith of the planters in that colony, and their much lauded eagerness to adopt every possible means to improve the state, physical and moral, of the nerTroes, to make up their minds upon .the subject, we suhjoin certain documents of undoubted authenticity. The first is a com pendious statement of the various measures pro posed to the Assembly of Jamaica by the Governor, &ring a period of about four months from the 27th of October to the 21st of FeLruary last, togejtcr, with tit,. fate which tbe several measures experienced frotnthat aegro-improving body of legislators. Let Mr. GLAD grove and his friends chew the cud of reflection upon 0 1 1 : ; interesting document, and extract from it such con- fi rma tJon of their assertions as it is cnlculated to afford It will liani, l ,e he contended that the acts of the Jamaica • Assembly are in°rely the acts of individuals. In this darni:ing record the planters, through their representa ti%es, i‘ give in evidence against themselves." They are responsible for their proceedings, unless they dis avow th e m. Have they condemned the conduct of their repre;entetives ? Have they remonstrated against public and contumacious a display of their deter minetion not to fulfil the provisions of the Abolition Act ? Not a whisper of disapprobation has been h e ard from te one end of the island to the other W'Vh after this, 2119.11 dare to deny that the Jamaica planters have done at; that in them lay to improve the state of the negroes, ...a to render them fit to enjoy that liberty to which such improvement was declared to be an in-dispensable prelimiaery ! Turn we now to another document scarcely less remarkable than the one on which we have been commenting. This, our readers will perceive, is a letter from Sir LIONEL SMITH to the Custos of the precinct of St. Catherine's, in which the Governor ,animadverts with just severity on the conduct of the ke,egistrates at Quarter Sessions, who had sentenced 17 eene cts to receive among them no fewer than 758 l as h es with the cat. Such a degree of punishment Sir LtoNee ,Smrett denominates " extreme." This is a gentle term I,e'llen it is considered that these unfortu nate victims of cruelty had no one to plead their cause when puton their trial ; that for each conviction (from o ne district at least) there is a large fee payable to the Clcek of the Peace ; and that all the corporal punish- merits' inflicted by the Special Magistrates up to the month ,o! August last amounted only to 105, among a population .of 120,000 male Negroes Let it be re membered, too, that in addition to this enormous amount of flogging, thes, l wretched men were condemned to imprisonment and Lard labour. Sir LIONEL SMITH, much to his honour, dd not satisfy himself with simply giving a rebuke to these cruel M ag istrates —he remit led the punishment in 13 out of the 17 cases. The est:lncluding passage of the Governor's letter is singu lately striking. What must be the state of the Magis tracy in Jamaica, when the dispensers of justice re quire to be told in so peremptory a tone, " that justice shall be tempered with mercy ;" and to what a pass are things cen:e, when the Governor of the greatest of our colonies p e Nicly declaree that he considers it a mi!fortune to occupy his high situation ! Te reply of the provincial functionary to the Go vernor's letter is not unworthy of notice. This gen tleman, it will be observed, does not attempt to vindicate himself from the charge of a gross dereliction of duty in absenting himself from the Court of which he is the head, and as such, the natural protector of the undefended prisoner. Such, at least, the Presi dent of a Court :a considered in England. But they order things differently in Jamaica. The Custos of the Precinct of St. Catherine tries hard to ex tenuate the conduct of hie brother Magistrates ; but in doing so, what a severe comment does he pass upon the conduct of the Assembly. Extreme punishments, he hints, are rendered necessary by the defective state of the prison regulations. Now let the evader cast his eye over the schedule of the messages sent down by the Governor to the Assembly, and he will find that the Assembly repeatedly refused to take into their consideration the measures proposed for the improvement of prison discipline—the last re fusal being on the 21st 0! February, the day after the meeting of the Colonial Legislature, and not a fortnight after the publication of the Governor's letter and its answer in the Jamaica papers. Thus every day's experience adds to the evidence long ago sufi ciently strong, that the conduct of the planters in Jamaica, whether regarded as Masters, as Magistrates, or as Legislators, exhibits an habitual desire to oppress and grind the unhappy slaves, and a spirit of insolent defiance towards the imperial and local governments whenever they interfere to protect them, and to secure the rights guaranteed them by the Abolition Law. If the West India Planters and those who abet or wink at their cruelties imagine, that the great question of Slave-emancipation is finally settled by the Bill which has been hurried through ParEament, they will find their selves grievously mistaken. 1.71 at Bill does I not deserve the name of even a palliative for the great a n d crying evils which it professes to rereeedy. It is a nere temporary and paltry expedient, adapted I for the p urpose of throwing dust in the eyes of a nation I justly i p t lignant at a breach of faith and an ingratitude , pram s / towards it, more flaerant and blacker than • any tobe found in the whole range of human experi ence. )3ut the people of Great Britain are too eleal- , -- ,-, --- . • i ffq, OP ~, i',. - -, •• , 1 I ...?..04 , 1 '' • .frti •. - S - .--.1.. 4; l ' , • ...., - ' ! . -••Ker 4- " --,-- , - --L"'. Zile sighted to be hoodwinked by so flimsy a veil. They have the great interests of humanity too deeply at heart to be diverted from their purpose by any petty subter fuges or shallow contrivances. Neither will they sub mit to be swindled out of Twenty Millions of sterling money, solely to gratify the insatiable cupidity of the dealers in human flesh. They think that they are en titled to demand something in the shape of value for all this hard cash—that they may expect, if not some trifling mitigation, surely not an aggravation of that worse than brutal treatment to which their fellow creatures, and fellow-subjects have been so long exposed under their flinty-hearted task-masters. Yet when they make this, not unreasonable demand, they are told that they are unjust—that a contract, a solemn contract, has been entered into, which cannot , be broken without compromising the national honour ; while those who hold this language confess, in the same breath, that one of the parties has broken this said solemn contract in all its most important parti culars, and actually pass a Bill, the sole object of which is to redress the grievances which this very breach of contract has created. That it will have any such effect no man in his sober senses can believe; that it will have a contrary effect is extremely probable. As it very unceremoniously, and even contemptuously, supersedes the authority of the colonial legislatures, and invests the Governors (whose power is already a subject of intense jealousy in the eyes of the would-be high and mighty members of the local parliaments), with power little short of absolute, it cannot fail to gall excessively the pride—a high degree of a certain kind of pride not being at all incompatible with great moral degradation—of these puny legislators, and magistrates. They will, no doubt, fret and fume against the Imperial Parliament ; but herein they Can only dis play an impotent rage. The weight of their fury will fall upon the poor negroes. The workings of a tyrannical and vindictive spirit, curbed by a superior power, but unrestrained by any principle of religion, mo rality, or humanity, will be manifested towards this unhappy race, in a thousand nameless ways, not cognizable by any law that can be framed. Thus will the sufferings of the slaves be increased by a law professing to relieve them. There is, we repeat, but one remedy—total and immediate emancipation. Let the people persevere in their present course of agitation, and that remedy will soon be applied. Date and Pa:;4' Nature of the Message. in the Votcs. How disposed of by the Assembly. 1537. Oct. '2 7 . p.:33.—Lord Gl:melg's Dispatch, re_, commending improvement in Prison) Discipline. Oct. 47. p. 37.—Presentment regarding the • Referred to a Select Corn_ mittee. N0v.29, p. 179. No Report. Select Committee, Nov. 20, p, 170. No Report. 'Select Ci , rrimittee, Nov. 16, p. 130. No Report, . . In, , ecwity of the Cornwall Gaol. Oct. 27, p. 37.—Lord Despatch, sug.' vsting— A Reduction of the Receiver-Gene.! ral's Salary. To provide for the Governors. To provide for a Legal Judge. Oct. 27, p. 39.—With an Ordnance Account for Bedding supplied to the Police. 2561. 161. 4d. • Oct. 31, p. 47.—Lord Glenrlg's Despatch reH specting Fees in C:)anc2ry. Oct. 31, p. 51.—Lor:1 Glenelg's Despatch reH commending that Apprentices be ex-I erapted from the operation of the Vagrancy Act, 39. Geo 3., c. 2. State cf the Island, Nov, 29, p. 179. No Report, Net ordered to be paid. taken up. 'Table.—Not taken up. Oct. 31, p.:;3.—Lard Glenelg's Obsereaticnsi' Select Committee, Nov. 22, p. 146. No Report. on Stoney-hill Road Bill. C:ergy Amendment Law. Allowances to Crowii witnesses Prisoners in Gacl. Amended, as suggested, in the New Law, but I not until after a Proro gation. 'Select Committee, Nov. 2, p. 83. No Report. Oct. 31, p. sS.—Suggestions for remedying the' Cases of Complaint between Master and Apprentice arising from the cir. cumstances detailed. Nov. 7, p. 32. Lord Glenelg's Despatch com.iSelect Committee, Nov musing on the state of the copies oti ltl,p. 130. the Laws suggesting their being Only Six Laws ordered to printed. be printed. On the Receiver General's Security Bill. Reduced to 100,0001. by the Now. Bill. No Report. No Report. An imperfect Bill passed, but not until atter a ' prorogation. Prisoners Allowances who are Crown Amended in the New witnesses in Gaol. I Law. •No Report. Saving's Bank Bill. Seditious Meetings Bill. P.lice Act. Classification Law must be reconsi dered. Malicious injuries to persons to be amended. Nov. 10, p. 110.—Lord Glen*l,;'s Dispatch re-I specting transportation in future. De- 1 siring a Commutation may be effected i as regards those now under such son. tence. Nov. 10, p. 111.—Itespecting a Bill (lost in the Council) for assisting the extension of the Scottish Church by a parochial tax. No Report. (Table.—Not taken up. ITable.—Not taken up. Select Committee, Nov. 29, p. 179. No Report. Nov. 17, p. 133.—With the Bishop's Letter re garding the Church Funds at his dis posal in aid of Grants for Schools and Chapels. Nov. 17, p. 13-4.—With the Church Mission ary's Letter as to a difficulty in purchasing land for building schools. Nov. 28, p. 177.—Proposing sundry regulaH tions for treadmill punishments. Dec. 6, p. 203.—With the Ordnance Store keeper's Account for the Muskets, &c., sup plied the Militia, 1,1971. 6s. 11. Currency. 1838. Feb. 2I.—A second Report as to Prison Dis cipline sent down and proposed to be referred to a Select Commit's/. " No. 110. " Government Houie, Feb. 5, 1858. " Sra,—My time having been almost entirely occupied in the Court of Chancery for some days past, it has not been in my power to write to you earlier respecting the trials in the recent Court of Quarter Sessions. " It was my painful duty to interfere with some of the sen tences passed by that Court, on account of their extreme se verity in corporal punishments. " It was not that I questioned their legality, but I do ques tion the policy and propriety of such extensive punishment!, by flogging, when it is known her Mejesty's Government are studiously endeavouring to substitute more effectual punish ments, by an improved system of prison discipline, to give the means of reforming bad characters, and operate in the preven tion of crime. " This is one of the objects of Captain Pringle's mission to this country. " The abstracts of trials in your last Court give these results. " There were 24 convictions, of which 17 were sentenced to be flogged in addition to imprisonment and hard labour, and 7 were sentenced to imprisonment only. There were 758 lashes awarded between those 17 convicts, giving an average of 44 lashes each. " These unfortunate men were not defended on their trials, while the Clerk of the Peace, who gets their cases up, becomes entitled to a doubloon for every conviction. " Now I beg you to notice, that the last returns sent home, sliming all punishments inflicted by the Special Magistrates made up to August, (and they have considerably diminished since), presented only 105 corporal punishments among up wards of 120,000 male apprentices, and I must further assure you that in five regiments of the line, in this command, 700 lashes would not be inflicted in any 12 months. " I am grieved whenever I have to find fault with the Ma gistrates, but it was impossible for me to hear of such extreme punishments, and not interpose. " If they were young offenders, such a quantity of corporal punishments was cruel—and if they were old offenders and repeatedly flogged, which I understand to have been the case, it was only rendering their hearts as callous as their backs, while it tends to disgust and degrade the multitude gazing on its useless infliction. " I observe with pain, Sir, that you as Chief Magistrate of the precinct did not consider it your duty to preside every day at the trials. I must entreat you never to depute that important duty to any other Magistrate. Misrepresentations have got into the papers as to the grounds of my interference on this occasion. I disavow the most distant intention of reflecting on the Magisterial bench—on the contrary, knowing the value of good Magistrates, no man can be more grateful than I always am, to those who study the welfare of the people. But I beg it may be understood, that as long as it is my misfortune lobe Governor of this unhappy and distracted Colony, 1 will fea _ lesdy assert my right in insisting that justice shall be tempered with mercy. !Table. —Net taken up. Select Committee, Dec. 3, p. 199. No Report. State of the Maud. No Report. Net ordered to be paid. Negatived by 21 to 8. I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient humble gervabt, (Signed) " LIONEL SMITH. " The Hon. Peter Wilkie, Cuitos of the Precinct of St. Catherine." " Windsor Park Pen, Feb. 7, 1838. " SIR,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's letter, dated sth instant, and in answer I have to s xpress my extreme regret, that your Excellency should have f e b, occasion toexpress your disapproval of the punishments awarded by the last Court of Quarter Sessions fur the precinct of St. (2,:•therine's. " I am h.nlined to believe that the Magistrates were in duced to sentence the culprits to such severe corporal punish ments, from the idea that the discipline at present enforced in the House of Correction and County Gaol is by no means adequate to the offiences committed. Were the convicts compelled to Lbour at active and use ful employment. I am convinced that the gentlemen who con stitute the Magistracy would as well as myself be most happy THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1838. and willing that offences should be expiated as much as pos sible by confinement and labour, rather than the infliction of eorporal punishment. Should any plan for the improvement of our prison discipline be proposed, I shall feel it my bounden duty to do all in my power to promote the wishes of your Ex cellency, and her Majesty's Government. " In respect to the Clerk of the Peace having a doubloon for each conviction. I bog to state, that from the parishes of St. Catharine and St. John, he receives a yearly salary, St. Dorothy alone paying on each indictment brought - before Quarter Sessions. " I cannot in justice to myself allow this opportunity to pass without assuring y o u r E xce ll en cy, th a t I feel the situation I hold as Custos of the precinct of St. Catherine becoming every day more irksome and painful to me, particularly as I feel that in the present discontented and distracted state of the Colony, I cannot on every occasion give satisfaction to the community in which I live, and at the same time fulfil my duty towards the Government I serve. " I have, &c. &c. (Signed) " PETER WILKIE. " Lieut. General Sir Lionel Smith, K. C. 8., &c. &C. " Governor of Jamaica." We have received by Express from Liverpool a re port—published in our columns of this day—of the proceedings at a Public Meeting held there yesterday, for the immediate Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies. We have likewise the pleasure to announce that a numerous and respectable meeting, having the same righteous object in view, has been held in Glas gow ; and that similar meetings are to be convened throughout the whole of the North of England, and the West of Scotland. These are indeed tidings of great joy : but we have not to-day either time of space to dwell upon them. LORD DURHAM has postponed his departure from London till Monday. . The Tories are to have a great gathering in honour of Sir ROBERT PEEL, when they mean to profit, it is said, by their assembled forces, to strike another blow at the Ministers. The Baronet is goaded sorely against his better jndgment to do the work of the Cum berlanders, and the alternative is offered him to begin a war to the knife against Ministers, or resign the leader ship of the Tories. jhe Reformers will learn their duty from the announcement of the intention of the Tories, and be in town the first day Parliament re-assembles. We copy from the Morning Chronicle a very proper castigation which that Journal bestows on the Orange faction, for an audacious attempt made by their organ, the Evening Mail, to debar her MAJESTY from visiting Ireland. It is not enough for them to hint to her MAJESTY that she will not be welcome—that they %yin not attend her Court—that they object to her peaceful and graceful presence ; they invoke their allies in England to throw themselves in her path, and not allow her to visit that part of her dominions. Her MAJESTY is to be placed under constraint by the Ultra Protestants of England that her Catholic subjects in Ireland may not he assured by herself that she is the QUEEN of the whole prople, and not like her predecessors, the Chief of a faction. The object of the Orangemen is to make her, and make the Sovereign Power, subservient to their avarice and their ambition, and failing to do that, they arc ready to slight, thwart, and reject her MAJESTY. the despotic CUMBERLAND is their proper Chief, and as they have no chance of getting him hither, they cannot do better than quit Ireland for Hanover, and carry their homage from Dublin Castle to Herren hausen. He will gain some devoted subjects, who may be of great use to him in quelling the resistance with which he is threatened by the Hanoverians ; and Ireland will get rid of those who have been a greater curse to her than were the plagues to Egypt. Madrid Journals of the 11th instant state, that al though the Carlist Chief, BASILIO, had occupied Almaden for some hours, he failed to destroy the fur naces, or flood the mines, as was at first reported. Ills rage at finding not quite two pounds sterling in the treasury, was so excessive, that he threatened to shoot the Alcalde, and the Treasurer, and his son upon • the spot. The former however was ransomed for 60,000 reals, and the latter were carried away prison ers. The following official announcement of the safety of the mines is from the Madrid Gazelle of the 9,h instant • "GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE MINES. " I am not able to lay before your Excellency in extenso the intelligence received from Almaden, but ha sten to i nform you that the mines, the furnaces, and the quicksilver stores have not suffered any damage in consequence of the occupa tion of the town b y Basilio. The mines are dry , and ill so good a condition, that on the 20th ultimo, the works and the extraction of the quicksilver were resumed with the usual ac tivity, and only suspended during two days, according to the intelligence I have therefrom, under date the 30th ult. " Madrid, April 8, 1838. "RAFA E L CAVANILL AS.. In the Eco of the 11th we find a despatch from General FLINTER, announcing that he had defeated PALILLOS, and liberated most of the prisoners carried from Almaden by BASILIO. General PA RDINOS was then preparing for an engagement with BASILIO, having, as he stated to the Government, drawn the Carlist Chief into an ambuscade, where he could not avoid fighting. One report stated that PAItDINOS had actually engaged and defeated BASILIO, who lost all the prisoners he had made, and the plunder he had collected during the expedition. Letters from St. Petersburg, of the 3d inst., state that, in order to encourage the colonization of the Caucasus by Russians, the Government has signified to the owners of serfs, that for every full-brown male settled beyond the Kuban 250 rubles will be given ; for every woman in good health 100 rubles ; for every boy 125 rubles ; and for a girl 50 rubles. What a picture of Russian civilization have we not in this brief paragraph I The Paris Journals of Thursday continue to be filled with the debates upon the question of the Five per Cents. Interest Reduction Bill. On Wednesday, the Minister of Finance opposed the project, not on the ground of any injustice in the principle, but be cause the time was ill chosen. The holders of the Rentes were persons in moderate circumstances, and were the scheme of conversion pressed upon them now, they would hazard their all in some Railway bubble, and in a few months find themselves plunged into irre trievable ruin. He would wait for the subsiding of the panic in America, and the mania of speculation a t home, before perilling the interests of a most neces sitous but meritorious class of public creditors. The debate was not concluded up to three o'clock on Thursday. Marshal SoULT has been put in good humour by being appointed Ambassador Extraordinary at the Coronation of her Majesty QUEEN VICTORIA. The Archbishop of ST. JAGO, in the Island of Cuba, was arrested some days ago on the French fron tier, as he was on his way to Estella, to fill the post of Prime Minister at the Court of the Pretender, DON CARLOS. His influence In Spain is reported to be very considerable. The Correo, Madrid journal says—" A Commission com posed of a staff officer, .and an officeer of every d erer i pt i on o f troops in the division of General Flinter, w hi c h left 'Aeries on the 6th of this mo nth, has arrived at M a d r id ; i t i s to l ay before her Majesty the condition of thos e troops, who are i unable to find subsistence, t being Basilio's practise to de stroy all that his troops cannot consume." "In some places," says the Castellane," he caused the cor n to b e thrown into the river, and the wine and oil to be poured out in the streets." In another article the journal argues RE if Madrid were on the point of being blockaded. It says ; , We do not think that ohatever may h appen, there is any rea s o n to fear at Madrid a scarcity of th e moat necessary ar ticles of subsistence. Private interest spurred on by circum stances, has already provided,. and will c ont i nue to prov i de, f or all the wants of the population of this capital. " Last year on the approach of the rebels all the produce whieb had been gathered in within a distance of twenty lei,gues round Madrid was brought into the city. For some months past Madrid has been the market where corn has been brought for the supply of other districts. In a moment of trial and embarrw.sment the prices will doubtless increase; but we repeat it, there is n reason to fear an actual scarcity of subsistence."—Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS. —PIate, APRIL 19. Five per Cents.. 108 f 95c. 109 f. Four per Cents., 10If. 55c. !bre., per Cents., 81f. SOL 95c. 90c. Cf. Bank Actions, 2,1380 f. fiente de Naples, 100 f. Sc. Roman Five peCents., 102% Spanish Actives, 21 213( 21. Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Bank, 1445 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 9.0 N. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 55 55%. Haytsan Loan, 480 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 2.5 f. 55c.; money, 25f. 524 c Three months, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 251. 373 c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 109 f. 15c. Three per Cents., SIC sc. Bank Actions, 2,fiSof. Romans, 102%. Belgian Bank, 1,415 f. Hay tian Loan, 480 f. Spanish Actives, 21. Spanish Passives. 4%. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF OORIN, A BANKRUPT. The Court was occupied the greater part of the morning with the further arguments in this part heard Bankrupt petition. The LORD CHANCELLOR took time to consider his judgment. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) RUSSELL T. BUCHANAN. The Vacs Cusnctuon gave judgment this morning in this case, Which came before his Honour upon the petition of Mr. Buchanan, complaining of certain acts done by the Master in taxing his Bill of Costs. His Honour thought the judgment of the Master should, be overruled, and that the petitioner should be heard on the merits. Till SOCIETY FOR TAR DIFFUSION OF ustrut KNOWLEDGE V. BALDWIN AND OTUERS. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE applied in this case for an injunction to restrain the defendants, who are the trustees of Messrs. Baldwin and Craddock, from publishing certain maps on their own account, which maps they had been employed to publish under a specific agreement for the Society. The case on behalf of the plaintiffs had not concluded when our Re porter left. The arguments appear likely to occupy the whole day, if not part of Monday. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) BLUNT V. HARVEY-CHURCH RATE 9. Sir F. l'ot.LocK moved for a rule to show cause why further proceed ings should be stayed against the defendant, who had been sued in the Arches' Court, Canterbury, for the amount of a Church-rate which he had neglected or refused to pay, resisting the payment of it on the ground of illegality.—Rule granted. EATON •ND OTHERS R. JERVIS. Mr. Sergeant TALFOIJRD applied for a rule in this case (tried at Shrewsbury), in which a verdict for 1941. was found for the plaintiff, to show cause why the vcidict should not he set aside. The question in the cause was whether the acceptance to the bill was or was not a forgery. After entering into the statements of the affidavits, on which he moved, the Court granted the rule. EXCHEQUER COURT.LYTHIS DAY.', THE ♦ rTORNEY-GENERAL V. KIRKE AND ANOTHER. This information was tried before the Lord Chief Baron at the sit tings after last term when a verdict was found for the defendants. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now moved for a rule nisi, for a new trial, on the grounds of an improper rejection of evidence, and mis direction on the part of the Learned Judge. The information was founded upon the 11th section of the 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 37, by which goods fraudulently removed from a bonded warehouse were declared to be forfeited. The Crown were prepared to say that the defendant's stock of cochineal in a few years had been increased no less than 500,000 ibs upon which duty had not been paid. The Court granted the rule. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET CITY (THIS D. 11)), TWELVE O'CLOCK. The friar Cyrelle, who hks been arrested on the frontier of France on his nay to Don Carlos, was to have been his first Minister, and he had dready received his appointment. Erro was to have joined him in the new Cabinet, as the present Ministers have been actually dismissed. Father Cyrelle is about 50 years of age, is a man of merit, and has great in fluence in Spain. 'l'he Journal of Commerce states that an extraordinary cou rier lia,l arrived on the evening of the 19th instant at Paris, bringing dates from Madrid to the 12th instant, where advices had been received from Segovia of the 10th instant in the afternoon. The Carlist General Negri left S-govia on the 10'h instant in the morning, and General Iriarte was to have entered it in the evening of the same day. FUNDS. This day is of a similar description to most of other Satur das—very few arrivals, and no intelligence of any importance to communicate to the present hour. Ccnsois opened this morning at the same quotations they closed ac yesterday, 93 for the Account, same for Money. Exchequer Bills, 67 69 prem. India Bonds, nothing done. Bank Stock, 205 f s. India Stock, 269 270. In the Foreign market the prices are nominal at present. Spanish Active with Coupons, 20} to 20k. Portuguese, 32 to f. Three per Cents., 211 to 22. Mexican, 27-i to Brazilian, 76 to Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 54 to 54k. We have no accounts, as yet, packet-ship Cambridge, of th which is daily expected. , of the arrival of the American Le Ist inst., from Now York PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stock per Cent. !tea. V2 A'34 3 per Cent. Cons. 93%K DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stocis Ditto Bowls South Sea St , A k .a% , , -- 33'6 per Cent. ..... - ........ 100% t Old knnnities .............. ...... 91 7 p Ditto Red New 3 ~.i per Cent IOIIN, 3 per Cent.. Annuiti e s, :151_ New 5 per Cent.. Ihnk LongAnnultiestnexpire Dit to ............. 50u 67 69 pm. Jan. 5, 1860..... l5 1-16 15 Ditto Small ..... Oct. 10. 1859 14% 13-16, Ditto Corrunzreial Jan. 5, 1360 —l Ditto Advertised pm Jan. 5, 1881, ........ ........... ' Bank Stock for Account._ ..... April 5, 1880 — India Stoclt for Account... — Jar. 5, 1570 — Consols for Acconnt . 93?;, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK;. Austrian rlonds Be!gian 80nd5 ...... — Ditto Account Ditto Acceum - Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds . s Buenos Ayres Bonds —.... Ditto Account .....- ....... .... Ditto, 3 per cent :hilliak 80nd5...-. ......... ..... Prussian Bonds Ditto Account — Ruse..lan Bonds, 1822 ...... ...... Columb.an 80nd5........... Ditto Accour:t . ........ .....-- Ditto Metallic. CAurobiat. Bonds, 1824. Spanish Bends Ditto Account Ott:Lb Bonds ..... )itto Account ..... .......„ — Ditto Account 20% % (lreek 80nd5..,.._. — French, 5 per cent..... ..... —f. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — --- 4 per cent. —i —c. Ditto Account .......... - Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —-- Exctisrige l. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. - ..... 54 .)itto Account — Ditto, : per cent 100 W, , / , N espclitan — Ditto Account ... ........... ... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. — PerShare. fialanos Mining Company l5O 50 Br tish Iron Company ' , rent Counties Railway 5 5 Great Western Railway Company 65 1143 3 trighton Railway Company London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company pit 171 69 Ditto Shares 5 30 3 4 Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 15 14 15% 15 Do British 1 2t;,% Do. London Bitumen Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen British North American Bank Vau Dieman's Land Agricultural Company l7 11 12% COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. Anstercl i m C.F. 12 6% Gibraltar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6% Genoa 1 6 15 Antwerp... Hamburg. ...,... ........ M.B l3 13% Venice .16 A1t0na...., Paris, 3 days' sigh 25 75 Palermo per oz. 115 Ditto 3 Mc. 26 0 Lisbon 54 Marseille:• B ourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 154 8ahia....... 25 Peterabuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effective 11......2 M. 10 14 Philadelphia 46 Trieste ditto lO 16 PRICE OE BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid 353 Portugal Gold, Quin £.O 0 0 Cadiz.... . 35% Foreign Gold, ill bars 317 9 Btlboa ...,. Bircelona ~ ,5 New Dollars Siviile l5 Silver. bars, standard OO 0 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 19. 3 per Cent. Consols 92%prand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 91% Ditto Reduced --1 Ditto, 4 per cent .. 3y, per Cent. Stock 9934Hibei nian Bank Ditto New, 18.341 ..... 344 per Cent. Debentures Ban Stock 200% City Debentures, 4 per cent.... Royal Canal Stock — Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per Grand Canal Stock — cent HALF-PAST ONE. The Hamburg mail has arrived, bringing the Hamburg papers to the 18th April. Metallic., 1054 ; Bank Shares, 1,435 ; Exchange on Lon don, l 3 Accounts from Stockholm to the 11th April announce that three houses have stopped payment at Fahlum. Accounts from Pesth state that all the magistrates had resigned, in consequence of complaints made of them by the inhabitants. Four thousand labourers had arrived in that city, to assist in rebuilding the houses which had been destroyed by the flood. The Consol Market has been inactive during the morning, and Con sols may be quoted at 93a for Account; 93ii for Money. Exchequer Bills, 67 69; India Bonds, nothing doing; Bank Stock, 2051 }. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active has rather improved —may be quoted at 20a a with Coupons; Portuguese steady at 32g; Three per Cents., 21} 22; Mexican, 27} I ; Colombian, 27}; Brazilian, 76g; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53g 54A. The Share Market heavy. Birmingham has fallen to 79 prem. ; Brighton, 9} prem. THREE O'CLOCK Console for Aceount, Of. Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, is to come to England, as Ambassador Extraordinary from France, on her Majesty's Coronation. Count de Flahaut, who had been first appointed, has received the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. General Sebastiani will also return to this country in the beginning of June. It is the Marquis of St. Aulaire, Ambassador at Vienna, who will go to Milan on the Corona tion of the Emperor of Austria as King of Italy. HYDE PA EL.—ln the Post of yesterday appeared the following statement :—" The keepers of Hyde Park have received orders from the Ranger to shoot all dogs found therein 1" We have instituted inquiries respecting the truth of this statement, and have found it to be without the slightest foundation. No orders of the kind have been given to the keepers. —Morning Post. FOREIGN NOTES VERSUS ENGLISH GOLD. — Notwithstanding the severity of the weather yesterday, Grisi was in such splendid voice at the rehearsal of Otello that Opera Stock, which stood at 901 when the repetition commenced, rose to HO,/ before it closed. There was a great fall of snow at Paris on Wednes day. Scotland, \Vales, and other places are suffering from a similar circumstance, the ungenial weather extending over a large space. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. (THIS DAY.) IMPRISONhIENT FOR DEBT. The vestry met this morning, and on its being moved, that the mi_ nutes of the last meeting, relative to the clauses being retained in the Marylebone Local Courts Bill, giving a power to imprison for debt, be confirmed, Mr. H. "Wiir.sox moved the non confirmation of the minutes. When the subject was discussed last week a resolution for retaining the clauses he objected to was carried by a majority one, but as the present meeting was more numerous than that of last week, he felt it his duty to broach the subject again. If he succeeded in his motion for the non-confirm.ition of the minute he should then move the resolution lie brought forward last week as a substantial motion. He wished a distinction to bo drawn between the fraudulent and unfortunate debtors. Persons who, when they went to prison were good, arid honest, and moral minded men, frequently came out the most dishonest, profligate, and immoral.—(Hear, hear.) No good object was achieved by imprison ment for debt. After a man had been imprisoned, he did not become a better member of society but a worse. He believed the law with respect to fraudulent debtors was not sufficiently stringent, and if this minute should be now confirmed, he would then move a resolution as a substantive motion, recognising the principle of imprisoning frau dulent debtors.—(Bear.) Mr. JAWKSON seconded the motion. When he first saw these clauses in the Bill he was perfectly astounded. It would be an anomaly in the proceedings of a reformed vestry to run counter to the avowed feeling of the public, which was decidedly against imprisonment for debt. The inhabitants of every town and Corporation throughout the king dom had expressed a strong opinion against the demoralising effect of the system of imprisonment for debt.—(Hear, hear, and cheering ) If tradesmen trusted persons not worthy of credit, they ought to lose their money. Greater power might be given to the Insolvent Court to punish those who contracted debts fraudulently. If the obnoxious clauses were left out the Bill would pass the Legislature, but if they were retained there was a great risk of losing the Bill, and the parish would be saddled with 4001. or 5001. expense to no purpose, and which would have to come out of the parochial funds. A VESTRYMAN said that until he was satisfied poverty was a crime he would never santion imprisonment for debt.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. KENSITT trusted he should be able to convince every per son of common sense of the wisdom arid propriety, and humanity of retaining these provisions in the Bill. The Bill was for the purpose of providing cheap, speedy, and efficient justice; but if these clauses were not retained in the Bill, dishonest persons who bad neither goods nor chattels wculd hold the poor creditor at defiance.—(Cries of " Hear.") The man who gave credit ought to have some security. He had been in business for twenty-eight years; he had lost 11,0001. in debts, and never imprisoned more than four men In all his life, and therefore he did not advocate the retaining of the clause from any want of humanity. There was more cruelty in taking a bed from a wife and four or five children, than in imprisoning a reckless profligate husband.—(Cheers.) The moment those clauses authorising imprisonment for debt were taken out of the Bill, the Bill would become valueless in point of efficiency. It was not until certain dishonest and fraudulent persons received a particular tap on the shoulder, that justice was done to the credulous and confiding creditor.—(Hear, hear.) He should, therefore, certainly vote in favour of the minute being confirmed. Mr. HOVENDEN said, that without the vindictive clauses in the Bill, the creditor would have full power to go against not only any existing property the debtor might possess, but against all forthcoming property ; and he should most certainly vote against the clauses,— (Hear, hear.) Mr. POTTER would rather that the Bill be thrown to the winds, than that those obnoxious and infamous clauses should be retained in the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. YOUNG said: there would be no practical difficulty in the way of distinguishing between the honest and dishonest creditor, and he should, as he did last week, vote for the expulsion of those clauses. Mr. GLAZIEtt was in favour of the clauses, because he thought they afforded the honest tradesmen the only means of compelling payment of a just debt. Mr. HOPE (Magistrate) wished to ask if the Clauses objected to were expunged from the Bill, and the Bill was consequently lost, whether the debtor would not be subjected to much greater irnprtionrnent than he would if the Bill were to pass with those clauses in it? Mr Ginsosr, Churchwarden, would vote for the confirmation of the minute.—(Hear, hear.) There was a eass of men who figured in life as gentlemen, music masters, dancing masters, and others, who were most of them honourable men, but a few of whom were of intemperate habits, and were not so, and a great many of whom put up at hotels, and contracted debts from day to clay. What remedy had the hotel and inn-keeper in such a case 9 The party had no goods, but:the creditor knew that his debtor could be tound at certain places and at certain times, and rather than be impri soned for one hour the party would pay the debt. The same observation would apply to those who let furnished lodgings. He was opposed to imprisonment for debt, if any equivalent substitute could be found, but he would not take away from the honest tradesman the only protection he at present had. Mr. H. WILSON replied. The motion for the non-confirmation of the minute was then put and carried by a large majority. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NESVGATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat was in very good supply, of all kinds of town and country killed ; quality fair generally, and prices much about the same as those of this day week. Not much left unsold. Beet; 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. Sd. to 4s. Sil. ; Pork, 33. Sd. to 4s. Bd. ; Irish, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Sd. per stone of albs. Poultry was in very good supply. Of Game but very little at market; in fact, it is now nearly out of sea son—prices of both rather looking upwards, and some quotations very high. The following are the prices, for each of the different descrip tions enumerated :—Goslings, Bs. to I as. ; Tame Rabbits, Is. 6d. ; Pigeons, Is.; Turkey Potts, 55.; Fowls, 4s. and higher; Chickens, 3s. and higher; Pea Hens, 10s.; Leverets, 38. to 55.; Ducklings, 4s. and higher; Wild Ducks, Os. 6d. A large supply of Eggs ; a good trade, and prices rather higher. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Vegetables show an improvement, and secure more business. Prices the same as Covent.gardcn. ln. iiay and . Clover-n© variation. Up price of Meadow Hay UBs., that of Clover 115 s. to 117 s. Fish in fair supply on the whole:; Turbot 55., to 18s. and 19s. for large; Soles 9d. to Is. for small, and 3s. per pair for large; Lobsters, good ones 2s. to 4s. each. Meat, supply good, and quality unexceptionable; trade lively ; Beef 61d. to Bd.; Mutton 7d. to 84d.; Veal 71d. to 9d.; Pork 6id. to Bd. and 81. d. A fair business appeared to be doing in most of these departments. COVENT.GARDEN. Artificial means have sent into this market some vegetables, which the season of itself could not have produced. There was some Aspa ragus, and a considerable quantity of Rhubarb and Cress. Spinach and Lettuces were also at market. Considerable business was done. CITY FISH MARKET. The supply of most descriptions, and the prices, as near to yesterday's quotations as one day can be near another. Trade lively, and a con. siderable quantity of common fish at market HAY MARKETS. Supplies moderate of most kinds, but a brisk demand for all descrip tions of dry provender, prices firm. Meadow Hay, 85s. to 100 s. ; Clo ver, 100 s. to 115 s. i Straw, 3Ss. to 425. per load. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. has become firmer, and has risen to 508. on the spot, and is 453 6d. for delivery. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE COLONIAL MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Our daily reports will have shown that very little business has been done in these departments of merchandise, and that prices, where al tered, have declined. It is some time since we had so meagre a week ; and this not occasioned by the holislays, bUt by a cessation of the de mand. B. P. Sugar has declined Is., Mauritius 25., Bengal 6d. to Is. per cwt. No sales of Coffee. Tea of all kinds has gone at 2d. to 4d. per lb. lower all round than the prices of last public sale. Rice has not altered. Some kinds of Spices would have been lower, if there had not been buyings in. Rum has declined Id. per gallon, and Indigo has gone at length, at public sale, 6d. to 9d. per lb. lower than the prices of last public sale. Imports have been light, and so have Exports and Deliveries. For next week we have but little business advertised. The only novelty in it is, that a little Coffee of different kinds is coming into the market. COAL MARI Per Ton. 8. d. Aaair's 2O 0 Holywell Howard's Main 2l 6 Ord's Hedhugh Original Windsor Pontop South Hartley l9 6 Pandeld Moor 24 0 Townley 2O 0 Wylam 22 9 Walls End Bell and Brown Walls End Bewicke and Co 22 9 Walls End Gosforth 22 9 Walls End Grace 2O 0 Walls End Heaton 22 9 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Peareth lB 0 Walls:End Perkins ' , 9 6 Walls End Belmont Ships arrived since!, KET.—April 20. eer Ton. s. d Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 29 9 Walls End Haswell Walls End Hetton 24 0 Walls End Lambton 24 0 Walls End Russel's Hetton 24 0 Walls End Stewart's 24 0 Wingate Main...... 29 0 Walls End Hartlepool 24 3 Walls End Adelaide Walls End Flinteff Tees 2l 9 Wails End Gordon 2l 9 Walls End Seymour Tees Walls End St. Helen's Tees.., R 2 0 Walls End Nevin's Taufield 2O 7 Wails End Tees Brampton dainj. ls 6 Cowpen Howard's Netherton Main Standrig 2O 0 !mat market-day, 63. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN Per Quarter. Wheat, Barley. Oats. G THE WEEK. Beans. Pease. Ashburn Basingstoke Bath Bridgewater .....,,,,..,. 8ri5t01.......—...—.... Chesterfield Derby - Doncaster -.. Dorchester.-,... Exeter Gloucester...-......„.. Hungerferel —...... Leice5ter,.„,.....,.... Newbury-- fiemsey Shaftesbury -.. Sliepton Mallet Sherburne-- Taunton Yarmouth Yoor i 1 --- Per Bushel. Shrewsbury --- 54 60 58 65 52 66 48 56 44 56 58 62 50 60 46 60 56 61 49 58 46 64 - 53 44 62 49 54 - 54 56 fit 56 64 56 61 b 2 s.d. s.d 7a so, 4€l 45 27 34 27 40 22 26 28 32 30 14 30 36 25 34 $0 36 26 35 26 31 25 3( 30 34 - 25 32 31 30 36 28 33 20 27 21 26 20 25 16 20 20 28 29 32 17 24 20 ii 22 27 22 29 50 55 37 44 35 46 32 34 34 38 44 59 44 47 36 42 36 40 40 49 33 44 44 32 44 38 40 41 44 56 1 40 46 - 36 34 Ng 40 48 s. d. s. d. 00 00 37 42 42 4E 42 46 34 40 37 42 34 ..... 35 40 17 30 23 27 17 26 30 24 23 18 28 30 24 26 s. ti. g. (1.1 2 0 40 30 36 30 34 s. d. s. d. I 39 44' s.d. s.d. 00 00 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, APRIL '2O. The imports of Grain have been considerably delayed by the late boisterous weather, and Flour and Oatmeal have only arrived to a moderate extent, via steamers. There was not much business done in any article this morning, in consequence of the market being very poorly attended by both town and country dealers. Wheat however remained extremely firm, as likewise Flour, Oatmeal, and Oats, the two latter being in rather improved demand. The stocks of Barley are now ex. tremcly light, which causes this article to sell freely at our last quota. tions. Malt, Peas, and Beans remain in the same state as last reported. RIRMINGHA M CORN MAItK ET, April 19 Wheat, 62 ............................................... 6g. 6d. to 7i W. Barley, imperial quarter 38 6 4:3 0 Do. Grinding, 491 b. ....................................... 4 0 5 0 Oats, 39 lb —. . ....................................... 3 0 4 6 Old Beans, ....... ............................................ 16 6 18 0 New ditto .. ....... ........ ..... . ... . ............... 14 0 14 6 New White ........ Pease, 3 imp. Vugh. Ditto Grey ditto 14 0 15 0 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 20. We have passed another dull day in the Cotton trade ; still our last. quoted prices remain unchanged, and the sales are somewhat larger than those of yesterday, there having been 3,000 bags parted with. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Aram 20. The Share Market here to-day has not presented a ♦ery active ap pearance. Prices, however, continue very firm for most of the leading lines, except London and Birmingham and Great Westerns, both of which have dec.ined in price considerably, particularly the former. The attention of purchasers of Railway Stock being confined to North Mid. land, Brighton, Eastern Counties . , Glasgow, and Ayr, and Birkenhead and Chester, which have been done to some extent, at the following quotations : — Brighton, 10 % per share ; Eastern Counties, 5,4 to j ; Birkenhead and Chester, Si a ; North Midland, 42 j ; Glasgow and Ayr, 4 1 / . The tendency in these seem to incline upwards. e learn that the Earl of Essex was married on Thursday by special licence, at his Lordship's ,iouse in Bel grave-square, to Miss Stephens, the eminent vocalist, N EGRO EMANCIPATION. GREAT MEETING AT LIVERPOOL YESTERDAY. (BY EXPRESS.) A very numerous and highly respectable meeting took place yesterday, at the Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street , Liverpool, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in f a vour_ of Sir Eardley Wil mo t' s mo ti on f or th e i mme di a t e a nd total abolition of Negro Apprenticeship in the West India Colonies. The meeting was convened by a requisition, addressed to the Mayor, William Rathbone, Esq., and was signed by . 21 Town Councillors, and nearly 200 of the most respectable in habitants of the town, including persons of all shades of poli tical opinions. A temporary platform was erected for the accommodation of the Chairman, the movers and seconders of the various resolu tion!, and the members of the Anti-Slavery Society. Among the Gentlemen present, we observed, I'. Harvey, Esq., Alderman Bonn, Thomas Rathbone, Esq., Rev. Hugh M'Neille, Rev. Fielding Ould, Rev. W. Bevan, one of the late delegates to London, Adam Hodgson, Esq., E. Cropper, Esq., Wm. Thos. Blair, Esq., Thomas Sands, Esq., Thomas Morecroft, Esq. , &c., &c., R. Radcliffe, Esq., Town clerk. At two o'clock (the hour fixed for taking the Chair) the body of the amphitheatre and the galleries surrounding it, were crowded in every part, and among the audience we observed a great number of ladies. At a f ew m i nutes past two, William Rathbone, Esq., Mayor of the Borough, was called to the Chair, amidst loud and general acclamations. The TOWN CLERIC having read the requisition calling the meeting, The CHAIRMAN rose and said—They were aware that this was the first meeting that had been held out of the Sessions lieuse. It was an unusual course, and he relied upon the good feeling and the good sense of his fellow-townsmen to justify him in the novel situation in which he had consented t 0 place himself, by holding a Town's meeting in that amphl theatre.—(Cheers. ) The subject upon which they had that day met was one most important in itself—most important to millions of their fellow -creatures ; and he hoped the dis cussion -would be so conducted as to show they were deeplY impressed with its importance.—( Loud cheers.) He trusted they should feel that in a holy and a righteous , cause they needed no declamation—needed no violence of language, but that its foundation being on truth and justice it was only by truth and justice that a righteous cause could be expected to prevail.---( Loud cheers.) Let them that day show that this was a deliberative assembly, and that those who came forward were actuated not by any impulse that required : a morbid excitement to keep it up, but that it was founded on a deep and abiding principle, for this was the only way in which any great or good cause could be triumphant. It was not by abuse, or imputing wrong motives to others that a good cause could be successful, and he hoped that this day would be n proof that the cause in which they were engaged wa s ' a pure one, and that every gentleman who might address theme whether his opinion were in favour or against the measure! before them, would be heard with calmness and impartiality . It was his duty to Fee that this meeting was so conducted., eld to whichever side its opinion prevailed, that that expression' and that opinion would be given in its true character, to th e public,because it would g o f or th w i t h t h e sanction a a t0w.0. ,5 meeting, and a town's meeting it would most certainly (Cheers.) The Chairman in conclusion again claimed fo r every gentleman who might that day address them a cal l ''' . aad deliberate consideration. The Rev. W. CARRUTIIERS then came forward to in? ver tha first resolution, which he proceeded to read to the ineetig r,s follows: I. That th's meeting deeply regret the attempt that has been made t cl divert the friends of the negro from seeking his immediate emanc i P a ch tion, by the introduction of th e Bill of the Col on i a l Secretary, tx " An Act to amend an Act for the Abolition of Shivery in the BO"' Colonies." That in their estimation the previsions of that Bill aro a.together unsatisfactory and inoperative ; and that they are de.cr mined never to rest satisfied with any measure which shall eur , 'tint le slavery, wills any modification, under the fallacious name of aPP ren. ticeship. He would leave it to his honoured and esteemed f - riend a nd brother Secretary of the Anti- Slavery Society of that to' P ' to state to them the provisions of the Ministerial measure now before the British Legislature, and to show the inadequa c y' of its provisions to the end i n t en d e d b y i ts projectors. ", should be his business during the short time he would tresPar upon their attention to confine himself strictly to the deterno nation embodied in the concluding part of the resolution* They were determined never to rest satisfied with any m el; sure which should cont i nue s l avery with any mod ifi ca tiorr, under the false name o f apprent i ceship.—( Hear and c h ee r , '-) Whence did that determination proceed ? Whence, but frog ,_ a conviction that sl aver y was i n i tse lf an evil--( Hear),—'ghat it was an aggregate of evils, and that it did not admit of n n). modification that could render it in any form, in anY de g' r a e „ e j. or under any name, consistent with the dictates of humanity justice. It was not against the mere seven letters which coral e" the word SLAVERY that their antipathies were aroused, their efforts directed. They wanted te, d o away with the ' thing itself.—( Cheers.) Th e y wished not to gild . the fette r of the wretched ca pti ve , an d l eave him wretched and oP pressed as before; but they teiehed to have his fetters bro ken off, and the prisoner to go free..( Hear, hear, and cheers.) They wished to confer not the name but the reality of fre'e doei, and that every one of those who had an inviolable, 53 ' indestructible, and an unquestionable right to expostulate wit his oppressor, and say_" Am I not a man and your brother ?" Hear, hear.) That determination proceeded upon the principle that betwixt freedom and slavery there was: no neutral ground —no transition state—no middle passage ;; that every man, be he who he may, and be he where he m 211• is either a freeman or a slave, and that until their West leldia fellow-subjects had the acknowledgment of the right to dis pose of their own labour to the best advantage—until the)" had the privilege of locomotion from place to place -- until they had the right to go from master to rnas' ter, according to the dictates of their own judgment until they had all the privileges of British subjects, they vr" e in reality in a state of thraldom.—( Hear, and Cheers.) N on ' from that state th e y soug h t to release the Negroes, not on ly by solicitation but by expostulation, by argument and by ' l3 ; peal, addressed to th o s e w h o h a d the power to liberate theme but they had sought it by the fair, the abundant, and 513 ample compensation that had been awarded for the injury and loss it was imagined th e pl anters would sustain b y the Act of Emancipation—(Cheers) —by the compensation which had been liberally, ge nerous ly an d freely mad e , and for w hich they expected, a s a matter o f course, the liberation of 800,00 0 of their fellow-creatures.--( Cheers.) Their expectatioancl had been vain—their exhilaration premature; they h d. asked bread fo r th e N egroes, and instead of it t h e y 1,3 given them a st one .—( C r i es o f " Hear, hear. " ) The N eg r°L.4 remained in bondage still, and what was the am ount of I •L' e good they had obt a i ne d f or t h em i n return for the large 3111- of money which had been so cheerfully paid ? Why, this was the amount of go o d resu lti ng f rom t h e measure—they 'glad g e t a word of seven letters erased from the West India vocabulary, and that was nearly all they had got in lieu of Their twenty millions sterling.—(Hear.) They called it negro apprentiee:_ ship—the use of wor d s was ar bi trary, b ut usage fixe d their meaning and directed their application, But, if the word al l ; prentice signified the state of things at present existing, in e t • West Indies, th en t h e words. apprentice and apprenticesl should be blotted f rom t h e English vocabulary, for they were D English words—their evil application rendered them u nwortb); a place in any di c ti onary o f t h e English language. It em b e dil all the idea s assoc i ate d w i t h i mpressions which were abhorre", to the feeli ngs o f British bosoms.—( Cheer s .) Away vrit b it it Let them no t h ear even t h e name of apprenticeship, a nd let "a not be said th at a mere c h ange of name was all they recei ve for their generosity, or their justice in ransoming the slaves'', (Hear, hear.) If t h ey wou l d not resist the demands of i ils s tice--if they would not sacrifice the claims of humanity, the far higher and holier claims of the religion they professe"ict if they would not vilify their own name, if they won e• not bring a stigma upon their country, and an odium tmert th age they li ve d i n , l et t h em unite in adopting the determinat'-trw never to rest satisfied with any measure which did not g o the full, entire, unrestricted, universal, and ii,erpetual lib er m - ; tion of those who, in spite of pledges, in sr,ite of promises , av in spite of payments, were still bowed br.;neath the yoke unrighteous domination.—( Loud ebeers.) The Rev. Mr. BEVAN had the duty entrusted to him top, sent to their notice the Bill which had just passed the LeS' lature, for th e p ur p ose o f diminishing the evils which had oc curred in the administration of th e Ab o li t i on A ct.— (Cheer,ce'm > The feeling of th e country h ad been epeedil) aroused VI," first these abuses had been made known ; and it created a le e s , ing of condemnation which must have been manifest to o ° 4 , to whom was e n t rus t e d t h e a d m i n i stration of affairs, and ' at fled them of the necess i ty o f a d opting some measures f or re' it medying the abuses w hi c h were t h e subject of complaint. P :i; first the complaint s were regar d ed as being made upon Tat. slight grounds ; but, i n th e course of a very short period , t ground was admitt e d to them, and upon it was founded tn e , Act which had passed through Parliament, and re ceived ,as Royal Assent.--( Loud c r i es o f H ear, hear, hear.) It 'sae rather singular that the grounds on which the meesure supported in the Upper House should be denied to it in ri g Lower House, the stat emen t s o f our Colonial Secretary bni.ase directly at variance with the denials of the other. Th at v ; observeable in six. important and prom i nent instances . jr! b l le , Chief Secretary admitted that the statements of the No ce ,. Lord (Brougham) were n o t exaggerated • the U n der n i cretary affirmed that the stat ements put forthin the co on ' ', J, ., 0 which neither fell below nor exceeded those of Lord "Wit , ham, were not corr e ct. H e would quote the Colonial Flo terry's own words, whe n h e said that the evils of the sYLolietes, were so many and s o great as to furnish ground for the " do tion of the app ren ti ces hi p system. On thee other hand , Under Secretary d en i e d that they existe:t except in a minn rty e,, l , of cases.—( H ear .) I n t h ree several instances the Colonial f cretary admitt e d t h at t h e statements James Williams's ra_ tire had been confirmed by the ovidence before the Govern ment Commission, while the Under-Secretary treated tl .re _ with somewhat approaclling to derision. The Chief-le: the tary admitted the evils of the work-house system, 16 ' ble Under-S ecre t ary s.i i d they could not be fairly c h ar gea _ to the a pp rent i ces hi p system. Th e Chief S ecre tary w _a i u ta , mitted the i m p ro p er i nter f erence o f t h e S pec i a l J us tices, the Und er S ecretary conten d e d t h ey were a l ways ready ,_ ady, hear th e comp l a i nts w hi c h were b roug h t b efore him. A lth ( 1 3u s s t t l o y m , the ary Chiefe t! e e e s c s r a e r t y a ry a o w,l admitted ee s o the th e ne withdrawalgroes,ci )1;- tb a i Under S ecretary maintained that they were treated, as w ell b ever they hod been by their mas t e rs. —( Hear, 'Jeer.) an d ' me sure, how e v er , h a d teen carried through Parliamen t, however d e f ec ti ve i t m i g h t b e , i t was 0 : oout to b se car ried into operation in the West India Colo n ' now ad,!r e himself The defects of the Act grad (Hear, L ear , and cheers.) To that measure he would el';rly pointed out, and many of Lord Sligo's amendrne rts t Gentleman here alluded to the discrc tioaary power veated irt the Governor, but which he co uld notcibefd been carried, The Rev.